假設,一個美國人把一部中國電視劇的台詞節錄下來,編輯出版一本漢語教學課本在美國出售,那麽這種‘弘揚中國文化’之舉是否可以呢?不可以,即便電視劇的製片人洋洋自得,美國的法律也不允許。美國有一個著名的案例(Castle Rock Entertainment, Inc. v. Carol Publishing Group Inc.),Carol Publishing Group將電視劇Seinfeld的劇情拿來匯集成趣味知識題,好比有人出一套趣味問答:白嘉軒是哪部作品裏的人物?田小娥泡棗幹什麽?白靈是怎麽死的……。最後法院判被告方侵權。
我剛才搜了一下‘在自己的Blog裏Embed YouTube 裏的視頻是否牽涉侵犯版權的問題’,還真是個七八年前就開始討論的問題。現在把這篇我認為解說比較全麵的文章鏈接貼在下麵,有興趣的可以看看。
https://turbofuture.com/internet/Embed-YouTube-Videos---Copyright-Infringement
讀文後,我個人理解YouTube是比較嚴格的網站,上麵的東東大多數應該是public domain(圖像已經屬於公共)但也不排除有侵犯版權的作品,如有追究,首先應該追究的是侵犯版權的作者,而不是轉載者。總之在自己的Blog裏轉載和Embed YouTube 裏的視頻也就是說還是有Risk的自己權衡利弊。如我自己,是願意Take this risk,但我今後會把YouTube裏的鏈接加上,以示對製作人的尊重。我把這些心儀的音樂放在我自己的Blog,就是為了方便我自己隨時點開就聽,如要付費,就付。不是說 "There is no such thing as a free lunch" , 以下是部分文章節錄,
The youTube TOS states the following -
You also hereby grant each user of the Service a non-exclusive license to access your Content through the Service, and to use, reproduce, distribute, display and perform such Content as permitted through the functionality of the Service and under these Terms of Service. ~~ [youTube TOS part 6C]
This clearly states that the owner of the video grants you a limited license to embed the video simply by leaving the embed option on (which is part of the functionality of the YouTube Service).
However, you may reason that it is not probable for anyone to come after you in this case because they would probably go after the uploader of the youTube video first. This is probably true, but you would still know that it is stolen content, and if you have a God, He would know too.
謝謝博主好文和借您的一方寶地討論這個題目。